“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”– Diane Ackerman

Q is for Quince

2.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor & Ink

About Diane Ackerman

American poet and nonfiction author Diane Ackerman has written more than 20 books and is best known for the eloquently written best sellerThe Natural History of the Senses. She was born in Illinois in 1948. While working toward her Ph.D. at Cornell, she studied both arts and sciences, feeling “the universe wasn’t knowable from only one perspective.” She has a molecule named after her: the dianeacerkone. She lives in upstate New York with her novelist husband.

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